We will be offering a session at this month’s Metaphorum, the online unconference for all things Clean.

Thinking about what we want to offer in the context of an online event (via zoom), the touch would need to be entirely given and received by the recipient with the facilitator interacting over the internet, so what kind of Clean Touch facilitation would best support this scenario, could we put together a session guide that people could take away and use to facilitate remote touch? This brought up another layer of exploration – what kind of skills does such facilitation require? So that is what this session will focus on. And hopefully it will be interesting and thought provoking in relation to other kinds of Clean facilitation (Language, Space…) whether remote or in-person.

Tickets for the metaphorum are available here, and info for the session below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metaphorum-2-tickets-29278959155

 Touching without Touch – exploring qualities of Clean facilitation

Jackie and Jeni invite you to a session exploring what kind of facilitation skills are useful for touching without touch. Our exploration will be based in the context of Clean Touch; and we envisage it shining a light on useful skills for other kinds of Clean facilitation as well.

In our practice and workshops with Clean Touch we often start with a guided meditation inviting the recipient to use their own touch to give and receive for them self, before moving into a session in which the recipient receives touch facilitated by one or more practitioners or ‘givers of touch’. Platforms like zoom and Skype make it easier to work with clients or ‘receivers of touch’ who are in a different location, but as the emphasis on the facilitator moves away from touch-giver to facilitation by language, what kind of skills are useful when guiding the recipient to both give and receive touch for themselves – for working with touch without touching? And in what ways is this the same or different as facilitating a Clean Language or Clean Space session for a client?

 Clean Touch is a process that invites a client to access their body’s wisdom through the creation of metaphor in a shared dialogue of giving and receiving touch. Clean Touch is always different and unique to the person at that moment. Working with touch, embodied metaphor and Clean Language enables a dialogue that is completely focused on the needs of the individual’s system and opens the door for rich multisensory communication; facilitating relaxation, greater self-knowledge and potential change.

For more about Clean Touch see www.cleantouchmassage.com and Chapter 31 of Nick Pole’s excellent book ‘Words That Touch’

Nick Pole’s beautiful new book Words That Touch, published by Singing Dragon, is out and available here:  http://amzn.eu/iiJ2gf8

A deliciously smooth read, Nick takes the reader on a charming journey through the use of Clean Language and ethos with bodywork, delving richly into the individual questions of David Grove’s Clean Language, adding a few tweaks given the context, and unveiling some of the mystery of just what happens in the brain, body, mind as a question arrives.

Loads of case studies bring the pages to life adding flesh aplenty, and the interviews at the end of the book give an enticing glimpse into the way that other practitioners are integrating Clean in uniquely diverse ways.

Plus there’s a chapter about Clean Touch, featuring the London workshop which Nick attended and interviewed us afterwards, and feedback from some of the York workshop and Clean conference workshop participants.

A beautifully written, informative and practical book that will be one of those to read time and time again to gain new perspectives with each return visit.